0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Brim · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Brim
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge gap in vehicle ownership separates Brim from the rest of the country, with not a single home lacking a motor vehicle. This reliance on cars is a defining feature of the area, where nearly half of all households own three or more vehicles.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Brim has a motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian rate of 7.6% for homes without one. Most households are heavily equipped, with 37.9% owning two vehicles and 29.3% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Brim, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 37%, followed by 4 or more (28%) and 3 vehicles (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Almost half of workers drive to work, while 22.9% work from home, a figure slightly above the national average. No one in the area commutes using public transport, which is well below the Australian figure of 3.1%.
22.9% ▼ -26.5%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 22.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of employed people who got to work by train, bus, ferry or tram/light rail as their only method of travel on census day.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Brim has 22.1 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the Victorian average of 4.41. However, these four bus stops are rarely used, with weekly departures per 1,000 people falling far below the state figure.
4
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
22.10
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
105.0
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).
2
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to the nearest transit stop takes a typical resident 53 minutes on foot, which is much higher than most areas.
53
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Brim [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20339/brim/topic/transport